EXT. C0UNTRY CHURCH - DAY
PREACHER WILLIAM BUBB (40) is at a picnic. Lovely, sunny
little country church with graveyard on a nearby hillside. A
dozen parishioners eat their chicken and biscuits happily in
the summer. An old man stares lewdly at a little girl.
A CHURCH MARM flirts with the Preacher.
PREACHER (V.O.)
The Book of Bill, chapter 1; verse
1: In the beginning of the end was
the Preacher. He beheld the light
divided from darkness. We are all
animals, sinners. Fight, eat,
sexual intercourse. God has
revealed your secret parts to me.
I know you all.
Preacher sees ants crawling in his Barbecue sauce. He goes ahead and
slathers it on a steak anyway. A YOUNG WOMAN (30) hugs an
OLDER WOMAN (60). They exchange knowing looks, smiles. Some
sort of inside joke that the Preacher doesn't get. Young
woman looks to Preacher.
YOUNG WOMAN
Are you ready, Reverend Bubb?
PREACHER
For what?
OLDER WOMAN
(disturbed)
Don't you know?
Young woman walks off, disgusted.
PREACHER (V.O.)
Outwardly, these are whited
sepulchers, but their innards are
deadmen's bones. Hypocrites all.
Let us all burn. Curse us with
boils--with the plagues. Humble
us. God damn them all. I beg you.
God damn us all. A prophecy: it
will be over soon.
Preacher sees a bald, emaciated white head staring out of his
church basement window. He is perplexed. He excuses himself
from a conversation with a church marm. He walks to the
church.
